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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2010
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Abdul M. Bailey, Tigard, OR (US);
James W. Edwards, Portland, OR (US);
Rahul Khanna, Portland, OR (US);
Yu Fu LI, Shanghai, CN;
Di Tang, Shanghai, CN;
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Abdul M. Bailey, Tigard, OR (US);
James W. Edwards, Portland, OR (US);
Rahul Khanna, Portland, OR (US);
Yu Fu Li, Shanghai, CN;
Di Tang, Shanghai, CN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for re-instantiating a firmware environment that includes one or more firmware functions available at pre-boot time when transitioning the computing device from a first, higher power consumption state to a second, lower power consumption state. The firmware environment determines whether a cryptographic signature on a firmware volume is verified; whether hardware resources of the computing device requested by a manifest of the firmware volume are available; and whether a firmware module of the firmware volume is compatible with installed firmware of the firmware environment. If so, the firmware environment reserves space in a memory to accommodate resources used by the firmware module, and executes the firmware module with the computing device in the second, lower power consumption state.